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Just when you thought you’d heard of everything bacon could be paired with, now comes Burger King’s bacon sundae with chocolate, caramel and … yes, bacon.

The sundae is only being tested at Burger King locations in Nashville so nutritional information isn’t available. But one can only imagine.

The bacon sundae itself appears to taste just fine. Food blog grubgrade.com reported: “All in all, the BK Bacon Sundae was everything that I had hoped it would be, and nothing that I had feared: The bacon stayed crispy throughout, and its smokiness and saltiness powered through even when there was a lot of chocolate and caramel on the spoon.”

Burger King says it has no plans to expand the burger sundae test beyond the Nashville area.

"As part of Burger King Corp.’s normal course of business, the company is currently testing menu items – which includes the bacon sundae – in a small sampling of U.S. restaurants located in the Nashville, TN area. Burger King does not have plans to expand the test to additional markets at this time," Cameron Loopstra, senior marketing manager for Burger King Canada, told The Vancouver Sun.

Burger King is not the only fast-food chain to stun with an item of caloric proportions: Pizza Hut restaurants in the U.K. have just introduced a hot dog-stuffed crust pizza (see pic) with a mustard drizzle. No nutrition information has been made available for this menu item, and there are currently no plans to introduce the pizza in Canada.

"The Hot Dog Stuffed Crust pizza is only available in the UK," Lisa Beachy, a spokesperson for Pizza Hut, told HealthPop.

If you’re truly pigging out, you’ll want to have your bacon sundae and hot dog-crust pizza with a bacon milkshake from Jack in the Box.

The bacon milkshake, introduced earlier, is scorned by purists because it only uses bacon-flavoured syrup and not real bacon. That doesn’t stop its numbers from going off the charts, however. The nutritional information for a 16-oz milkshake are as follows: 773 calories, 358 calories from fat, 40 g total fat, 127 mg cholesterol, 319 mg sodium and 75 g sugars.

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